Liam Gillick

1848

Liam Gillick, 1848!!!, 2010

single channel HD video (colour, sound) 47’ 48”

first exhibited Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2010Featuring Clementine Coupau and Uri Aran. Unfolding between the three protagonists in six acts in front of, behind, and alongside the camera is a singular confrontation with these historical events. Liam Gillick prompts Clementine Coupau to recite the historic chronology of revolutionary events, now referred to in the future tense: “March 3, 1848: Revolution will break out in the Rhineland”; “March 12, 1848: Revolution will break out in Vienna”; “March 15, 1848:

Revolution will break out in Berlin”; “All of these revolutions will follow the same pattern: news of revolution in France will attract excited crowds, groups of men (mostly journalists, lawyers, and students) will meet to discuss rumors.”